Editing List of IOC country codes (section)

== Special codes for Paralympics ==
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| style="text-align:center;" | {{mono|IPP}} || {{flag IPC|IPP}} || 1992 || Used for ''[[Independent Paralympic Participants at the 1992 Summer Paralympics|Independent Paralympic Participants]]'' at the 1992 Summer Paralympics as a designation used for athletes from FR Yugoslavia and Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia who could not compete as a team due to United Nations sanctions.
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| style="text-align:center;" | {{mono|IPA}} ||[[File:Paralympic flag (1994-2004).svg|border|24px]] [[Individual Paralympic Athletes]] || {{hlist|2000}} || De facto independent [[East Timor]] was not yet recognised as a sovereign state, and did not have a recognised National Paralympic Committee.<br />Two athletes from the country gained the opportunity to in the [[2000 Summer Paralympics]] in Sydney, but they competed officially as Individual Paralympic Athletes, rather than as representatives of an NPC.
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| style="text-align:center;" | {{mono|IPA}} ||[[File:Paralympic flag (2010-2019).svg|border|24px]] [[Independent Paralympic Athletes at the 2016 Summer Paralympics|Independent Paralympic Athletes]] || {{hlist|2016}}|| A team consisting of refugee and asylee Paralympic athletes competed at the [[2016 Summer Paralympics]] in Rio de Janeiro as Independent Paralympic Athletes.
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| style="text-align:center;" | {{mono|NPA}} || {{flag IPC|NPA|2024 Summer}} || {{hlist|2018|2024}} || Used [[Neutral Paralympic Athletes at the 2018 Winter Paralympics|in 2018]] for Russian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the state-sponsored doping scandal.<br />Was to be used in 2022 for Russian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]],<ref name="2022-ban">{{Cite web |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1119966/rus-blr-athletes-still-to-receive-medals |title=Russian and Belarusian athletes to still receive medals at Beijing 2022 |date=2 March 2022}}</ref> however the Russian athletes were ultimately banned before the start of the [[2022 Winter Paralympics|2022 Games]].<br />Used again in the [[2024 Summer Paralympics]] for both Russian and Belarusian athletes.<br />In 2024, the designation was banned from using the Paralympic flag and instead used a white flag with black letters displaying "NPA" (but still used the Paralympic Anthem).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.paralympic.org/news/ipc-publish-neutral-paralympic-athletes-regulations-paris-2024-paralympics |title=IPC publish Neutral Paralympic Athletes regulations for the Paris 2024 Paralympics}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;" | {{mono|PNA}} ||[[File:Paralympic flag (2019).svg|border|24px]] Paralympic Neutral Athletes || – || Was to be used for Belarusian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]],<ref name="2022-ban" /> however the Belarusian athletes were ultimately banned before the start of the [[2022 Winter Paralympics]] and the code was not used.
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| style="text-align:center;" | {{mono|RPC}}  || [[File:Russian Paralympic Committee special emblem (Tokyo 2020, Beijing 2022).jpg|22px]] [[Russian Paralympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Paralympics|RPC]]<br />from the abbreviation for ''Russian Paralympic Committee'' || {{hlist|2020}} || Used for ''[[Russian Paralympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Paralympics|Russian Paralympic Committee athletes]]'' at the [[2020 Summer Paralympics]] following the sanctions due to the [[Doping in Russia|state-sponsored doping scandal]].<br />The delegation used a flag with an altered emblem of the [[Russian Paralympic Committee]] (the original emblem being banned due to containing the flag of Russia).<br />Was to be used in 2022 as well, however the Russian athletes were ultimately banned due to the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]].
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| style="text-align:center;" | {{mono|RPT}} || {{flag IPC|RPT|2020 Summer}} || {{hlist|2020|2024}} || The team represents the estimated 82 million people around the world who are refugees, and the 12 million of which have disabilities per [[UNHCR]] estimate.
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